SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1319, 21 June 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

aaaiv a l s . June. 21--Taia.ro*, s.s., from Southern ports with the following passengers—Messrs Watson, Morgan, Fraser, Burns, Caldwell, Irwin Brown, Miller, Knight, Hammond, Fisher, McGuire, Rowe, North, Swanson, Bucklev, Hare, Henderson, Glayson, Ashmore, Slack, Gibbs, Te Wheru, Hill, Sant, Mrs Piera, Mrs Moetai and child, Sir J. Prendergast, and Inspector Scully. DEPARTURES, June. 20—Taiaroa, s.s. for Tauranga and Auckland with the following passengers Mr and Mrs Scott and servant, Miss Good. Miss Guin, Miss Bcott, Mrs Williams and two children, Mr Sutcliffe, seven natives and one chinaman, Mr Sutcliffe, and Mr Davis.

News has been received in Wellington that the Union Company have sold the steamer Albion to Mr Ellis, of Sydney, who Intends to put her in the Newcastle coal trade. The price has not transpired. The report of Mr Bridgett, British Consul at Galveston, confirms the general complaints of the practice of decoying away British seamen in American ports. In Galveston, he states, the frequency of such desertions shows no cessation, and British ship masters are loud in their complaints that in the absence of treaty obligations, the laws of the United States afford .them no facili* ties for retaining their crews. The men, it is stated, are induced tu desert by crimps and boardinghouse-masters, who literally sell them to other vessels at as high a rate as £9 “ for the run ” of 20 to 25 days, pocketing this sum, which is usually paid in advance, and the seaman has consequently no money to receive on arrival at destination. Owners of vessels are greatly prejudiced by these proceedings, and wages of seamen are thereby doubled or trebled beyond the rate at which crews are engaged in England.